Giotto, Humanism, and Perspective

Who Painted this? What is it called?

Giotto 1266-1337 it is the Fresco Arena chapel (Cappella degli scrovegni)

What was Varsis opinions on Leonardo?

He invents leonardo as a true divine genus,

What is the meaning of Designo

Drawing and design, has its origan in intellect, has to do with the universal harmony and order and their presepction in the artists mind.

Innovations with impressionism

1. use of oil paint 2. new kind of pictorial texture 3. soft smokey haze 4. rendering of surface 5. shadows to model figures 6. three dimensionality

What did Leonardo paint on?

Slabs of wood

What painting is it?

Virgin on the rocks (1483-6)

What were some of Leonardo’s techniques?

1. sufmato (delicate gradients of light to produce a misty effect) 2. seen as if through smoke 3. shadow rather then lines, define 3 dimensional objects

What time period is this from?

early renaissance

What new effects did the mona lisa bring to light?

1. new pose for portraitures 2. vertical line of flesh tones that contrast with the background horizontals 3. effects of chiaroscuro and sfumato 4. Aerial perspective of the background contrast with view of sitter 5. Tonal Differences 6. Repeated triangular shapes 7. Folds of tunic repeated in winding roads of background